![]() | ![]() | ![]() | 7.4 Right-to-left writing |
Scripts with right-to-left writing require some extra care. Here is a solution that works for Farsi (Persian) using Xetex (Arabic and Hebrew should be usable with the same approach):
Include the stylesheet right-to-left.isy from the Ipe
stylesheet folder. It defines a text style rtl
for
right-to-left text objects.
In the document properties (that is, in the Document properties
dialog, available on the Edit menu), set Latex engine
to
xetex
, and the Latex preamble
to
\usepackage[documentdirection=lefttoright]{xepersian} \usepackage{bidi} \settextfont{FreeFarsi}(I needed to install the packages
texlive-lang-arabic
and
fonts-freefarsi
on my Linux system to use this.)
It is important to set the option documentdirection=lefttoright
for the xepersian package, as the main document needs to be
processed left-to-right for Ipe to work correctly. Only individual
text objects will be translated using right-to-left mode.
You can now have text objects with Latin script using the
normal
text style, and text objects with Persian script using
the rtl
text style.
If you want, you can make rtl
the default text style, with the
following customization:
prefs.initial_attributes.textstyle = "rtl"